unhappily

Adverb

Meaning

in an unfortunate way

in an unpleasant way

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Examples

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. Oscar Wilde

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness. Bertrand Russell

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. Amos Oz

Who you get, and how it works out - there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily. Ian McEwan

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. Ben Nicholson

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Charles Lamb

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